Hey guys,

recently I stumbled over a really cool new way of putting the via Skritter acquired vocabulary to the test. amazon.cn is selling the Kindle ereader device and has a big collection of Chinese ebooks, most classics like 鲁迅 are even for free. The best think is, that their is even the integrated English-Chinese dictonary (similar to MDGB Chinese reader) which will translate words in text.

The only problem is this: Right now I dont have a Kindle, I only use the kindle Software on my notebook and Android phone to read ebooks from amazon.de. I plan to buy a Kindle device soon, but the annoying thing is, that you apparently can only download kindle ebooks from the US, German OR Chinese amazon site, you cant read them all on the same device/software, right?

Anybody has a elegant solution to circumvent the issue?

I mean I could just register my kindle for the Chinese amazon, but than again I really like to read German/English ebooks.

Is the only solution to buy 2 kindle devices?


Or can one log in and out with the Chinese and German amazon account and have like to seperate collections on the same device? :S

Would be interested in any suggestions.

Hmm, sorry I can't help you but it seems like once you get to the level where you can really read Chinese literature buying a Chinese Kindle could be entirely worth it.

I'm German and I when I read a book it's mostly English literature. The integrated dictionary is awesome.

You could try various Calibre plugins to de-DRM all of your ebooks, Kindle or not. Kind of a hassle to set up but works well afterward, and then you can actually own the books you paid for. Not quite sure how it works with different national Kindle stores. Some Googling might find you the plugins I mean; I don't know their current status.

I got a German and a Japanese kindle. The kindle website allows you to change the "location" of your kindle. That way I acquired most English titles in the US Amazon kindle store as they are a lot cheaper than in the German Amazon kindle store. I bought some German book on Amazon.de, switched back to Amazon.com - and all books are part of my library at the same time.

I haven't tried this for Amazon.cn as I use a different login and I am not sure if Amazon.cn shares account information with Amazon.de or Amazon.com.

The Calibre approach also lets you extract text, and run it through a program like Chinese Word Extractor to make Skritter lists.

I have a US kindle which I took to China with me. When decided I wanted to buy books from the Chinese amazon site I made an amazon.cn account, de-registered my kindle from the US amazon store and re-registered it to the Chinese amazon store. All the books I bought on the US store I had already stored on the device itself before hand and after de/re-registering they were all still there.

If I wnated to go back and get books from the US site I would just have to do the de/re-registration process again. From what I remember it wasnt anything too difficult or time consuming.

But, its a really good way to improve reading. Being able to look up words so easily with the Chinese-English dictionary. I really enjoy it.

Curious if the latest Kindle iOS App update today broke anyone else's Chinese-English dictionary? Now in Kindle it can only find definitions for about 1 out of 10 characters/words on both my iPhone and iPad (both are recent models running up-to-date iOS).

Yeah, just tried it now. I had to re-add the Oxford C-E but it still didn't find words like 北京。I've had some problems with iBooks on iOS7 as well – the dictionaies I've added disappears every now and then, and I have to re-add them.

Yes, the latest iOS kindle update broke my dictionary. The dictionary popup only shows up for the first Chinese character in a paragraph.